Terms Of Use

You actually came to this page. Our lawyers made us include it and made us use a precious button on our home page to get you here. At first, we thought the lawyers were a real pain. But then we read the page. It's really important stuff. We took the legalese the lawyers wrote and translated it into readable English.

First:

We run this site so that people like you (and people you like) can use it for personal entertainment, information, education, and communication. So go ahead and browse around all you like. You can even download from the site but only for non-commercial, personal use. You are not authorized to do any distributing, modifying, transmitting, reusing, re-posting the text, images, audio, and video, for public or commercial purposes unless we give you written permission.

If you visit our site, you are obligated to follow the terms and conditions listed below and any other law or regulation that applies to the site, the Internet , the World Wide Web, or Monterey, CA. You shouldn't access or browse the site if you have any problem with that, because once you start, there's no turning back -- you are bound by the terms and conditions.

Top Ten Rules for visitors who visit this site:

1. For everyone's sake, just assume that everything on the site is copyrighted unless we say it's not. So you can't use the content except how we say you can on this page or anywhere else on the site without our written permission.

2. While we try to include accurate stuff on the site, we're not promising you it's accurate. In fact, we're not promising you anything except fun and entertainment.

3. We and anybody else who helped us create, produce, or deliver the site are not liable for any damages you suffer when you use it. In particular, the lawyers want you to know that our disclaimer includes "direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the site is provided to you 'AS IS' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON INFRINGEMENT.

"Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties. " We put all of that in quotes because we couldn't figure out any other way to say it that the lawyers would accept. But here's the bottom line -- we're not responsible if you're browsing around and the site damages you or your computer or infects it with any nasty viruses.

4. If you don't want the world to know something, don't post in on the site in any bulletin board or anyplace else. That's because anything you disclose to us is ours. We can reproduce it, disclose it, transmit it, publish it, broadcast it, and post it someplace else.

5. Pictures of people or places shown on the site are either our property or someone else's property we're using with their permission.

6. There's also a lot of trademarks , logos, and service marks on the site that either we own or we're using with someone else's permission. This permission does not extend to anyone else from this site.

7. You'll probably notice we've linked our site to lots of others. While that's cool, it doesn't mean we've looked at all those sites, much less checked them out periodically to see what's going on. So don't blame us if some site you link to is bad or has stuff on it that offends you.

8. That brings us to what you do on our own site. While we occasionally listen in on chat groups, or look at the posting in our discussion groups or on our bulletin boards, we take no responsibility and assume no liability for the content of those locations or for any mistakes, defamation, libel, slander, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity you might encounter when you visit such places on our site. While we certainly respect your privacy , we have no choice but to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities.

9. Software that we use on this Site is protected by all sorts of patriotic U.S. laws. Because of that, you can't download or send the software to anyone in Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other country where United States has embargoed goods; or (get this) to anyone on the United States Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals, the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders.

10. We're also allowed to change this page and anything else on the site any time we want to. That's because it's ours and we have the programmers who can do it.

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to principles of conflict of laws.

To the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Happy Feetz and/or its affiliates ' intellectual property rights, Happy Feetz or its affiliates may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the State of California, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

Any other disputes will be resolved as follows:

If a dispute arises under this agreement, we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location: Monterey, California. Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of us.

If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration at the following location: Monterey, California, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.